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Students who have not passed the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) since 2006 will now be able to receive their high school diplomas after Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill No. 172 on Wednesday, Oct. 7. The exam will also be suspended until the 2017-2018 school year. According to the California Department of…
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This school year, the College Board changed the date of the PSAT from its usual time on a Saturday to Wednesday, Oct. 14. The school district was notified about the date change last spring. “It was without any given reason and (we were) not given an option to change,” said Bennett Wutkee, vice principal.…
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This October, The Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) club is conducting a drive called H2 Outreach to gather toiletries for LGBTQ youth who have been kicked out of their homes by their unsupportive families. All proceeds are donated to LGBTQ teens currently living in a housing facility of LifeWorks, a non-profit organization aimed at helping…
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Visual Photography’s first deadline to submit the portraits disc for the yearbook was Oct. 7, which should have contained all underclassmen and faculty pictures. The yearbook staff did not receive it until Oct. 9, at which point they found a number of issues on the disc. The disc Visual Photography submitted to the yearbook…
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On Sept. 30, yet another attack occurred on the Planned Parenthood health institute, this time in Thousand Oaks on Hillcrest. According to a Ventura County police report, “investigators determined an unknown suspect wearing clothing to protect his identity crudely threw a large piece of masonry through a window on the south side of the…
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An armed robbery occurred at Pizza Hut on Thursday, Oct. 1, in the Newbury Park Place shopping center on South Reino Road, only about a mile from campus. The police response included a helicopter to search for the suspect. The crime played out even closer to junior Conrad Jones’s house than to the school.…
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After every summer, the students of Newbury Park return to a slightly different campus than the one they left. The people change, and so does the school itself. Last summer, upgrades were made to the mass media lab, gym, and cafeteria, which is now the new home of the writing center. Worn from years…
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At the end of the last school year, Dr. Jeffrey Baarstad retired from his position as superintendent of the Conejo Valley Unified School District. This academic year, the district introduced the new superintendent, Dr. Ann Bonitatibus, in July. “She’s already been to our campus three different times,” said Josh Eby, principal, of Bonitatibus. “Also,…
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Daniel Morales, a senior on the NPHS Varsity football team, died on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 from a stab wound sustained during a fight outside of a Taco Bell in Camarillo, according to the Los Angeles Daily News. Morales, a recent transfer student from Adolfo Camarillo High School, was reportedly involved in an…
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In a continuous effort to update courses, both Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) are modifying classes this year. Along with the launches of the Common Core standards and new SAT, the changes serve to avert the educational focus away from memorization and towards critical thinking. Art history and European history are two…